China today denied plans to construct a tunnel to divert Brahmaputra river waters amid reports of highly polluted waters from its tributary Siang flowing into India.
"I would like to point out that Chinas position on the eastern part of the China-India border is consistent and clear," Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said in response to questions about the reports on blackened, muddy waters with cement and sledge of the Siang river in Arunachal Pradesh.
He refuted reports that it may due to a tunnel being constructed on Chinese side.
"I have never heard of the project mentioned by the Indian side. It is hoped that the Indian side will not conduct unfounded speculation and reports," he said in a written response to a question in this regard.
In October, China had denied reports of plans to build 1000-km long tunnel to divert Brahmaputra waters to the arid regions of Xinjiang, saying the report is untrue and false.
There is, however, no explanation for the highly-polluted waters in Siang ...

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi rode the seaplane on Tuesday from Sabarmati River to Dharoi Dam during the Gujarat poll campaign, opposition parties questioned if he violated security protocol.
Security protocol says VIPs can fly in two or multi-engine aircrafts, while the Kodiak 1000 the Prime Minister rode from Sardar Bridge was a single-engine machine. The government is also yet to notify rules concerning seaplanes.
The Air Safety Circular 2 of 2014 says the type of aircrafts/helicopters carrying VIPs should comply with Air Safety Circular 2 of 1981 and Ministry of Home Affairs guidelines.
The Air Safety Circular 2, 1981, stipulates that a "twin-engine aircraft with good operational capability, reliability and easy maintainability characteristics" should be used to fly VIPs.
Moments after television channels beamed footages of the Prime Minister riding the seaplane, former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah raised questions over the appropriateness of Modi riding the seaplane in the context ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended the campaign for the second phase of Gujarat assembly polls in style today as he took a seaplane ride from the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad to Dharoi Dam in north Gujarat and returned after offering prayers at the famous Ambaji Temple.
He boarded the single-engine seaplane from near the Sardar Bridge connecting the old city with Ahmedabad West and flew to Dharoi Dam in Mehsana district.
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani claimed this was the first time a seaplane landed on a water body in the country.
A special floating platform was constructed on the river to facilitate the prime minister board the plane.
The plane took off from the Sardar Bridge-end amid chants of "Modi-Modi" from BJP workers and city-dwellers, who flocked to the Sabarmati riverfront.
After his plane landed on the water of Dharoi dam, the prime minister proceeded to the Ambaji Temple in Banaskantha district via road.
Watch: Quest Kodiak aircraft, the seaplane taken by PM Modi from Sabarmati ...